Jammu Tawi: Jammu Police today brutally thrashed protesting Class 10th students, here today at Tawi Bridge. Pertinent to mention that The students who failed in the recently declared 10th result by the Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education staged a massive protest on Tuesday outside the office of Jammu Kashmir Board of School Education, Rehari and shouted slogans against Board officials. Demanding mass promotion, the protesting students later marched towards Tawi Bridge where according to police they blocked the bridge and some attempted jumping off the bridge but the police and other students present there stopped them.
The agitating students, both girls and boys, assembled at Tawi Bridge amidst raising of slogans and holding placards in support of their demand.
The protesting students claimed that they were declared failed notwithstanding the earlier assurance of mass promotion. They also alleged that their answer sheets were not evaluated properly.
However, the students accused the police of using excessive force and beating the students who were protesting and denied the police version of any student attempting to jump off.
